Free vs Free Speakers: What Professional Speakers Need to Know

If you are, or want to be, a professional speaker, you must understand the people that hire professional speakers and ...
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Bypass the Gatekeepers

Association and society gatekeepers, as you already know, do a great job of keeping speakers out. Make your life easy ...
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How to Use the NTPA Directory

The directory that so many professional speakers have purchased is the “National Trade and Professional Associations of the United States”, ...
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Speak at State Societies of Association Executives

An efficient and effective way to grow your association business is to speak at state societies of association executives (SAE) ...
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Connecting with Association Executives on LinkedIn

To grow your association business you would be wise to spend 30 minutes a day on LinkedIn connecting with association ...
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Call Reluctance is REAL!

Recently I was speaking privately with one of the speakers in a mastermind I run...he says, "I don't have call ...
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Speaker Positioning for Associations: 3 Keys to Success

Since the mid-1990s, I have been presenting the topic, “Sell Your Speaking to Associations through the Back Door” at the ...
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